Friday, August 31, 2012

I used a splash background with acrylic inks and added some road salt while it was drying. I then drew some strings with my small French curve ruler. I used the tangles: Deelish, Drobbles, Paradox and Printemps.

Relay For Life Template No. 4. The background is dabbed on stamp pads. I started in the cener and made some triangles and then it looked like watermellon so I added some seeds and kept the seed theme throughout. Some of the leaves I used Afterglow and Knightsbridge is behind the leaves.

Diva Weekly Challenge No. 84 "String Theory v. XI: Blind-Sighted". I put the dots on the corners and drew in the borders then I shut my eyes. I felt my way around the tile edges and then in my 'mind's eye' drew a string. Thoofen and Diamond drops were drawn on the string. I then filled in the background with Pais and coloured Pais with pencil crayons and coloured Diamond drops with a Tombow marker.

I used a splash background with Tombow markers. The string idea is Tangle Patterns String #15. The tangles are: Pais, Diamonds and Squares, Zedbra, Hurry, Tuftid, Knightsbridge. Some of the shading is done with graphite and some with a Tombow marker with a blender pen. It is quite dark and hard to shade.

Zendala Dare No. 20. I started with a splash background with a stamp pad. I used Vortex, Zebra and Verve and then went back into the Zentangle with ink from the stamp pad and my blender pen. The background technique is from the internet. You smear some stamp pad ink (they used distress ink) onto plastic, spray it with water then dab your paper onto that. You then dry the paper with a hair dryer and when the paper is dry you dab the paper back into the ink and then let it dry naturally. You get a two-toned effect. It didn't work as well with regular stamp pads as it did with the distress inkpad. This one was done with a regular stamp pad.

I used a distress ink pad with a splash technique for the background. The tile is tangled with a sepia pen and I went back in with the distress ink pad and a blender pen for some highlights. The tangles are in a seed theme: Tripoli, Blackeyed-peas, Mi2, Bundles and eye-wa.